Stephen Ostroff
FDA Appoints New Head
It was confirmed that Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC, is the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) commissioner of food and drugs. As the top official of the FDA, Califf is committed to strengthening programs and policies that enable the agency to carry out its mission to protect and promote the public health, the […]
Jarrow Formulas and Delegation Meet With FDA
Jarrow Formulas, Los Angeles, CA, sent a strongly critical letter to FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) then-Acting Director Stephen Ostroff, MD, regarding the misrepresentations about safety of probiotics for use with infants. The FDA’s Deputy Director of CFSAN then invited the company to meet with the agency. A delegation affiliated with Jarrow Formulas, Inc. (JFI), […]
Peanut Corporation of America Sentencing
In 2008-2009 a deadly outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium killed nine and resulted in many sickened. The executives of the company, Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), were criminally charged in 2014, along with production managers who knew about the salmonella contamination. Stewart Parnell, second-generation chief executive of the family-owned peanut enterprise, was sentenced to 28 years […]
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